According to Craig L. Blomberg’s Can We Still Believe the Bible?: An Evangelical Engagement with Contemporary Questions, perhaps more than you think. Reviewing the book, Louis Markos highlights areas where Blomberg pushes back against well-known critics of the Bible’s reliability, such as Bart Ehrman, arguing its trustworthiness “does not depend on its living up to logical … Continue reading Just How Reliable Is The New Testament?
Mataconis argues that overall, the ongoing decline in oil prices is a boon to the US and other advanced industrial nations: Falling prices for oil will eventually filter through to the prices of the products derived from oil itself, including not only gasoline but also home heating oil and jet fuel. In the short and medium term, this would provide … Continue reading Is $3-A-Gallon Gas Good News?
Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced that it was halting the bond-buying program known as “quantitative easing”, the third round of which had begun in September 2012. While the Fed won’t divest itself of the more than $4 trillion in bonds it has accumulated, and has no immediate plans to raise interest rates, it won’t buy any more. Matt … Continue reading QE, We Hardly Knew Thee
Reviewing Harold Holzer’s Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion, Garry Wills marvels at how the president deftly handled newspaper editors and reporters, noting that journalism in his day “was a dirty game by later standards, and no one played it better than Abraham Lincoln”: As soon as Lincoln was elected he … Continue reading Lincoln’s Media Strategy
Chris Christie went on TV this morning to defend his mandatory quarantine policy for health workers returning from Ebola-afflicted countries: “I don’t think it’s draconian,” Christie, appearing on the Today show, said of New Jersey’s mandatory 21-day quarantine on health care workers returning from Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea. “The members of the American public believe it … Continue reading Quarantanamo, New Jersey, Ctd
Video emerges of hatchet-wielding man charging at NYPD officers http://t.co/S7jQ5VeUTL pic.twitter.com/u9ZGOcJ55l — Mashable (@mashable) October 24, 2014 Social media posts by Zale Thompson, hatchet-wielding attacker in NY, show he advocated jihad: pic.twitter.com/ek5LklDx4j — Rukmini Callimachi (@rcallimachi) October 24, 2014 The NYPD is trying to determine whether a man who attacked four rookie police officers with a … Continue reading An ISIS “Lone Wolf” In New York?
For late-breaking Dish coverage of the first confirmed case of Ebola in New York, follow the updates compiled by Bodenner below. For continued coverage of Gamergate, here’s some perspective from Christina Hoff Sommers: God, I love Christina. More on why I find myself increasingly on the side of the much-despised gamers tomorrow. Meanwhile, more absurdity from Amanda … Continue reading The Best Of The Dish Today
A reader sends the above screenshot: You might note the contrast between American and Canadian reporting on the Ottawa shooting. I listened to CBC on my drive in to work (I live in Los Angeles), and I was impressed by just how measured the reporting was, even with the crisis still ongoing. The attached picture … Continue reading The Best Of The Dish Today
I had to do a double-take on this story, which hasn’t gotten much press stateside: The time has come to admit that Israel is a sick society, with an illness that demands treatment, [Israeli] President Reuven Rivlin said at the opening session on Sunday of a conference on From Hatred of the Stranger to Acceptance … Continue reading The Best Of The Dish Today
Adam Chandler narrates the latest diplomatic twist in the Mideast turducken: On Thursday, things got a little stranger. The State Department announced that it had held direct talks with the Kurdish Democratic Union Party (P.Y.D.), a Syrian Kurdish group that is linked to the P.K.K. In other words, American diplomats met with the Syrian affiliate of a … Continue reading The Syrian-Turkish-Kurdish Clusterfuck, Ctd
